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Eco/Green Living

GREEN Topic: Water Heating – Instantaneous Water Heaters

Technology Snapshot & Benefits: Easy economic savings can accrue from instantaneous or the “on-demand” type of water heaters. In contrast to the traditional method of keeping 40 to 80 gallons of hot water at-the-ready in an insulated tank, “on-demand” heaters produce hot water only when it is needed. Since hot water is generally required for less than […]

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GREEN Topic: Sealing the Existing Home

Technology Snapshot & Benefits: Most people aren’t aware that air leakage amounts to 30-40% of a home’s heating and cooling bills. Stopping air leakage is important not only for energy savings, but also for protecting your home from the damaging effects of moisture. Air, leaking into walls from the interior of the home, carries humidity […]

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GREEN Topic: Radiant Floor Heat

Technology Snapshot & Benefits: Radiant floor heating can be extremely cost-effective and comfortable. There are three types of radiant floor heat: radiant air floors, electric radiant floors, and hot water radiant floors. Hot water radiant floors, or hydronic systems, are the most cost-effective systems for homes or buildings in heating-dominated climates. Hydronic systems heat water […]

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GREEN Topic: Passive Solar Heating

Technology Snapshot & Benefits: Easy economic savings accrue from designing and building features that effectively trap heat from the sun during the day and release that heat slowly throughout the nighttime. The effect is similar to living near a large body of water where the thermal mass of the water lessens temperature extremes. That means reduced […]

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GREEN Topic: Moisture Management for Energy Efficiency and Comfort

Technology Snapshot & Benefits: You can increase comfort and save money by mindfully managing the moisture content of the air in your home. Humans are most comfortable at a relative humidity of 50%, plus or minus 10%. Relative humidity is the amount of moisture that air contains relative to the maximum amount that it could contain (at […]

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GREEN Topic: Natural Daylighting

Technology Snapshot & Benefits: Both obvious and hidden economic savings come from building designs that rely on natural lighting. Throughout much of the day, owners and occupants can easily benefit from natural lighting and avoid electrical consumption otherwise required by artificial indoor lamps. Not so obviously, considerable economic gain may be achieved through increased productivity of […]

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GREEN Topic: Landscaping – Shade Trees and Windbreaks

Technology Snapshot & Benefits: Perhaps the most pleasant economic savings can be derived from judicious and mindful planting of trees and shrubs. The value of traditional plantings serving as windbreaks is well known. Additionally, well-placed deciduous trees can shade a building during hot summer months yet allow warming sunshine to enter a building when warmth is […]

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Atlanta BeltLine transforming abandoned railroad tracks into livable green space

By Laura Coburn Published April 21, 2015 FoxNews.com Along what was once a stretch of rusting, trash-strewn railroad tracks cutting through Atlanta, young professionals now enjoy an evening out for tapas and skate boarders zoom past funky art installations and chic new condos. The Atlanta BeltLine is among the largest and most ambitious of a growing number […]

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Atlanta Ranks Third on EPA’s Energy Star Top Cities List of Most Buildings in the U.S.

NEWS FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: March 30, 2015 Metropolitan Atlanta moves from fifth to third place in one year as the commercial building community embraces green building and maintenance practices ATLANTA – The Office of Sustainability today announced that the City of Atlanta and metropolitan region rank third on the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) seventh-annual […]

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